When I was little, I thought that Grandfather's were all missing fingers. Both of my Grandfather's were missing fingers on the same hand, one was missing one and one was missing two. I thought that according to how many Grandchildren he had he had to cut more off because the one who was missing two had 5 and the other one only had 3. My sister thought the same thing!

Elizabeth

When I was a child, my father had a decorative airplane propeller that was hung on the wall. When I was very small I asked him what it was. He told me that it was the propeller for an airplane that he was building (this was made more credible by the fact that he was in the military). He said that he was collecting parts for the airplane, and when he had all the parts he needed, he would build the airplane in our garage. I was very excited that we were going to have an airplane; periodically I would ask my dad whether he was closer to building it. He would always tell me that he was still collecting parts. I believed this story for years; I think I was about 11 or 12 before it dawned on me that he was pulling my leg.

BJ

That all adults were aliens and when I was in bed they reverted to real form tall thin shrouded creatures and if you looked into their cowls all you see was darkness

Kitten

I used to believe that Grandmother's were not allowed to drive. This was due to the fact that neither on of my Grandmother's drove. I was always wondering when my mom was going to have to give up driving.

Anon

ive always wanted to be a twin, and i used to believe that if i was always good, i would somehow become a twin (i always thought that twins were good children who were so good, they got their wish!)

lue

When I was in kindergarten some kids in our class didn't believe our teacher when she said she had a father. It wasn't until I was five that I knew adults had parents.

MyTeacherHasNoDaddy

I used to believe that when I went to sleep, my mother would hold wild parties that she didn’t want me to see and one night, I caught her vacuuming the house in my Mickey Mouse hat and I pointed at her and said "HA! I caught you. You made them go away as soon as I woke up!"

Nancy

When I was very young, my sister convinced me that we were a part of an elephant's dream. She said if I made too much noise or jumped around too much I would wake up the elephant and when his dream ended, I would cease to exist. This terrified me into being quiet and remaining still.

Mundi Hose

I used to call my granparents Omi and Opi, thinking that it was their real names. At the time I thought how cool that they met and their names rhymed, it wasn't until I was about 8 that I realised that Omi and Opi are grandma and grandpa in german.

Anon

When I was a little girl my dad closely resembled William Shatner on Star Trek. I asked my dad if that was his brother and he said yes. So, of course, I believed him. The same thing with my uncle who looked like the country singer Don Williams. He said "Sure he's my brother!" I was soooo clueless about how families work. I told everyone that Captain Kirk and Don Williams were my uncles.

julia

my parents split up when i was about 2, but i used to visit my dad during the school holidays. Between visits dad used to put all his small change in an old cookie tin so that when i came to stay i would have some pocket money. It usually amounted to about $100...I belived my dad was really, really rich!

lets hope hes got another BIG tin put away somewhere for my wedding!

ShannonOfDoom

I used to believe my Dad when he said he could lift a house with his hands, but he couldn't show me cos he'd break the furniture inside. I used to tell all my friends how strong he was!

Anon

There are seven years between me and my closest sibling. When I was little my older brother and sister told me that our mom paid them five dollars a day to talk to me. They also said that if they were nice to me when they talked they got an extra ten dollars. This infuriated me as a child and I would refuse to talk to them! I guess it kept me out of their hair!

maggie

when i was little i used 2 think that my mom went up 2 strangers when she was pregnant with me asking "would u like 2 b my baby's aunt?" i never realized that my aunts were my mom's sisters until I was about 8 or 9 . . .haha

Anon

Once around Chirstmas time my parents were always in their room with the door shut. I always wanted to know what they was doing in the room alone (I was 4) so I would stand on my head to look under the crack of the door. Mom finally told me that my dad was "in trouble and was grounded until Christmas". I was mortified that parents could get in trouble too and I didn't understand who punished them. Only later did I learn they were building a dollhouse for one of my presents.

Christmas Trouble

When I was 10 my mom always talked about how much better than I was at my brother's age than he was. I thought parents got 1 good kid and 1 bad kid. Luckily, I was the good kid.

Meepers

My parents used to joke around with my sisters and I, saying that my mother's full name was Merci beaucoup (means thanks you very much in french).. (moms name is marcy) So forever we thought that Merci beaucoup was her full name. My sister, only about 5 years old got lost in a target. When we found out she was missing we started looking around for her, only to hear the customer service intercom caller saying "will Merci beaucoup please come up to the service desk, your daughter is here!"

sugarpies

i used to think that you god father/mother were the people that were related to god in your family. i thought they were sent by god to watch you constantly, but you just couldn't see them.

elatina

I used to believe that my mother was really terrible at scraping out the bowl when making a cake. I believed this until I was 27 when I was baking a cake with her and showed her how well I cleaned out the bowl and she revealed her evil secret...she always left a little for me!

bowl cleaner

One time when I was little and wasn't listening to my mom, she warned me to behave or else I would "live with the consequences!" I immediately asked "who are they?" (I imagined that the Consequences were a really mean old couple who lived in a house with no toys and didn't like kids.)

Kate